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Windows 7 - Changing the partitions of hard drive?

  • 24-10-2009 9:46am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭


    Hey,
    A while back I botched up a partitioning of my 200gb hard drive so now I have one 70gb drive and a 50gb drive. I dont know where that last 80gb went! I don't store a lot of things on my computer so space was never an issue.

    I have just installed Windows 7 and while doing so thought I may as well try sort this out now.

    Can anyone tell me please how I may repartition the drives without losing any of the data and having to reinstall Windows 7 again etc?

    Any help would be very appreciated.

    P.S - When I installed Windows 7 it told me that it's keeping all the Vista files in a folder as a precaution. Is it really necessary to keep all this stuff, and if not how would I go about deleting it to free up more space?

    Thanks


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭Ricky91t


    Cianos wrote: »
    Hey,
    A while back I botched up a partitioning of my 200gb hard drive so now I have one 70gb drive and a 50gb drive. I dont know where that last 80gb went! I don't store a lot of things on my computer so space was never an issue.

    I have just installed Windows 7 and while doing so thought I may as well try sort this out now.

    Can anyone tell me please how I may repartition the drives without losing any of the data and having to reinstall Windows 7 again etc?

    Any help would be very appreciated.

    P.S - When I installed Windows 7 it told me that it's keeping all the Vista files in a folder as a precaution. Is it really necessary to keep all this stuff, and if not how would I go about deleting it to free up more space?

    Thanks

    Right,
    First of all right click my computer and click "Manage" click yes if the UAC window pops up and then click disk management,You should see a grey area totalling to around 80gb,Right clicking this will give you options,I think you could either make a new partition out of this or extend your primary or secondary partition,It's your choice really,If you have any issues(or no one else replies)could you post a screen capture of the disk manager screen so I can see if it's there etc..

    Deleting the Vista thing is recommended,I have over 20gb of data which was mostly crap,Add to that my old vista install and it took up quite alot,If you're happy with 7 and have transferred or backed up data you'll see a file called "Windows Old" or something near that!(Sorry it was weeks ago when I did this!!)

    This should give you some free hard disk space :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    Ricky91t wrote: »
    Right,
    First of all right click my computer and click "Manage" click yes if the UAC window pops up and then click disk management,You should see a grey area totalling to around 80gb,Right clicking this will give you options,I think you could either make a new partition out of this or extend your primary or secondary partition,It's your choice really,If you have any issues(or no one else replies)could you post a screen capture of the disk manager screen so I can see if it's there etc..

    Cheers for the reply. I went in to disk management, and attempted to expand the C drive. Right clicking it didn't give me this option, as "extend volume" is greyed out. Even though in the screenshot you can see that there's 70gb of unallocated space. I turned that in to a drive, shrunk said drive, and even still can't extend the C drive. So I'm not sure what to do now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭MjM


    You'll have to add it to your drive D: The layout in the image is similar to your disk and the unused space may not be physically next to the C: partition.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    MjM wrote: »
    You'll have to add it to your drive D: The layout in the image is similar to your disk and the unused space may not be physically next to the C: partition.

    Ah ok, interesting that that's how it works. So if I want to have a bigger C drive I'll have to delete everything but the C drive and work from there I'm guessing.

    So the D volume is the volume I was using on Vista to store my Windows Image Backup. I went to delete it just there but was warned that the drive is in use and deleting it may cause unexpected problems. Is it still ok to go ahead with that?

    Thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    Cianos wrote: »
    Ah ok, interesting that that's how it works. So if I want to have a bigger C drive I'll have to delete everything but the C drive and work from there I'm guessing.

    So the D volume is the volume I was using on Vista to store my Windows Image Backup. I went to delete it just there but was warned that the drive is in use and deleting it may cause unexpected problems. Is it still ok to go ahead with that?

    Thanks

    Just wanted to bump this to hopefully get some advice on the above, because I kinda need to do this asap.

    cheers


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Depends on what files are actually on the D: drive - if it's just a backup image then clicking yes should be fine

    To be honest you're much better off having a seperate D: partition, just save all of your files there and if you ever have to reinstall windows, you can just wipe the C: drive without worrying about losing files...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    tman wrote: »
    Depends on what files are actually on the D: drive - if it's just a backup image then clicking yes should be fine

    To be honest you're much better off having a seperate D: partition, just save all of your files there and if you ever have to reinstall windows, you can just wipe the C: drive without worrying about losing files...

    Thanks. I deleted the drive and it doesn't seem to have caused any problems. I'm creating a new D drive on which I want to store a saved image of Windows, to make it easy to start afresh should I want to in the future. (Hoping it doesn't seem necessary as often as it did on Vista.)


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